Word: plight
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Levin makes a noble and marginally successful attempt to deal with a somewhat hackneyed subject in a unique and sensitive manner. Instead of focusing on the survivors themselves and their inability to go on living, Simple Truths explores the plight of the descendants of holocaust survivors and how the legacy of guilt destroys their lives as well. Susan Warner, the novel's protagonist, is the daughter of two concentration camp survivors. Her father escaped death by working as a camp physician, a fact which Susan's mother, an embittered and vengeful woman, takes pleasure in tormenting him with. Neither...
...construct a viable society out of an island of former plantations and fit it into an international community characterized by superpower domination and an economic order designed to keep the little guy down. What emerges is a disturbing image of the United States and a valuable insight into the plight or the Third World...
...conference focused on the economic plight of reservations, which are suffering from high unemployment and cuts in federal support...
OPEC has never appeared more shaken, more divided. But it is premature to conclude, as many observers are now doing, that OPEC's current plight will somehow become a permanent fixture of the world oil scene. Some of these observers are making serious errors of judgment and analysis. Others are seeking to validate their own research by generating results that fall within the ballpark of prevailing opinion. Still others are drawing long-term conclusions from short-term, cyclical market conditions. All are allowing the wish to father the thought...
Reagan obviously hoped to lend the political system some legitimacy by pushing elections scheduled for March 1984 forward to this year. But the plight of Silva and other opposition members makes it clear that the elections will have no legitimacy. Members of the opposition are labelled subversives and would be in great danger in public in the urban areas of El Salvador. Rebels cannot place themselves at the rightists' mercy by laying down their arms. Silva maintains that attempts at reform are useless unless they "put the two parts together." The rebels made an offer for neutrally mediated negotiation last...